The town of the title of Mihail Sebastian’s 1935 novel is a vague, uncertain place. Referred to in the text only as ‘D…’, translator Gabi Reigh’s introduction (which is a
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when he became a student in Bucharest, where antisemitism was rife. It would e
Wed, 13 March 2019, 7pm-9pm, Caravansérail Bookshop, 5 Cheshire Street London E2 6ED, tickets here The latest Romanian books in English are presented, alongside the newest collect
